Development impacts of migration and remittances on migrant-sending communities: Evidence from Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT: This paper evaluates the development impacts of migration and remittances in migrant source communities by applying insights from the New Economics of Labor Migration (NELM) theory to Ethiopia's migration. Using household survey data, we empirically evaluate how household participation in migration arises and so that the subsequent labor losses and the influx of remittances affect income sources and asset accumulation of smallholder farm households. To account several econometric issues and consistently estimate the impacts of migration and remittances, we adopted three-stage least-squares method complemented with endogeneity and multicollinearity test. Besides, using logistic and multinomial logistic regressions respectively, we estimate the determinants of the household migration decisio

SUBMITTER: Redehegn MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6364874 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature